brine
/brʌɪn
/noun [mass noun]
1Water strongly impregnated with salt: the olives have been stored in brine...
- The blocks are then salted in brine for 20 days and aged for two years.
- You will find preserved vine leaves in good supermarkets and specialist stores in cans or jars, either in brine or salt.
- Discard this water and use fresh water for your brine.
1.1Seawater: dolphins and whales can’t help taking in the odd gulp of brine as they swallow a fish...
- In England, the relative lack of sunshine meant that salt was usually made by heating brine artificially.
- You are still just treading water, gulping brine into your empty heart and lungs.
- Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach.
1.2A solution of salt and water in which food is preserved: the classic dirty martini includes a few drops of olive brine...
- Red herring are fish which have been first soaked in brine with saltpetre added, then hung up to dry before being subjected to a heavy smoking - ideally over oak, beech, and turf.
- One principal difference is whether the meat is dry salted or soaked in brine.
- The beef is soaked in brine, brown sugar, juniper berries, and spices for any time between three weeks and three months.
1.3 technical A strong solution of a salt or salts: these brines percolated downwards...
- The resin then must be ‘regenerated’ with a salt (sodium chloride) brine solution before further treatment can occur.
- The brine solution cools the product down while at the same time, adds salt to the cheese.
- Although not commonly used, potassium chloride can be used to create the salt brine.
verb [with object] (often as adjective brined)
Soak or preserve in salty water: brined anchovies...
- I brined the scallops and hazelnuts in water, salt, sugar, and liquid smoke.
- Fresh-pack or quick-process pickles are not fermented; some are brined several hours or overnight.
- Some 120,000 pounds of cheese - about a third of the day's production - can be brined at one time.
Origin
Old English brīne, of unknown origin.